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Dr. Appel is Chair of the Department of Neurology at the Methodist Neurological Institute and Professor of Neurology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He serves as the Director of the MDA/ALS Research and Clinical Center and is the former Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and previously served as the Director of the Jerry Lewis Neuromuscular Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas. Dr. Appel is a leading expert on degenerative neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s Alzheimer’s and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Specifically Dr. Appel focuses on the importance of neurotrophic factors and immune mechanisms including the role of inflammatory cytokines in these diseases. He has served as an Advisory Board member of the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association and as a Council member of the American Society of Neurochemistry. For ten years he acted as Editor-in-Chief for Current Neurology. Dr. Appel received his medical degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and has over 350 scientific publications to his credit. | 